After 40 years, I'm going home.  I'm headed to the farm--to land owned by my great grandfather 100 years ago.  As a child, I ran through the fields of  tall yellow sage grass--arms out stretched-fingertips feeling the nubby tops.   When my energy faltered or I was called to the house, I would be covered  in those nubby tops of sage grass. 

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Those sage grass fields have what my Dad calls a bottom land where his father, Amiel, and his aunt, Gertrude would plow with the old mule, Yellow.  The bottom was sewn in different crops but mainly corn. I hope to see a crop sewn in the rich, fragrant dirt this year for the first time in many years.   I would love to say that my sweat, blood and tears will join those of my ancestors working this field and it might - but more than likely it will be my  elderly Dad's and  nephew’s.  There is something  about being  a steward of land.  I plan to be a true and trustworthy steward.  

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My best life memories are wrapped in that house, barn and woods.  The  house had a glorious upstairs, wood stove, sticky wooden windows, a banging screen door and a smoke house.  Life was slower there: I felt comfort and secure surrounded by the old walls, old furniture, old dishes and old ways of life.  Winter time air within the house was smokey and smelled of hardwood.  Summertime air  was breezy with open windows and oscillating  fans.  Those were the early days of my love for the old.  Along with a yard sale queen of a mother - I never looked back.

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So me, Mom, and my twin sister, Jannette, opened a small store in 2009.  It is located in a tiny farmhouse sitting close to the highway between the towns of Salem and Viola, Arkansas.  It’s been fun, a lot of work, laughs, tears and meeting tons of customers who are now friends.   Sweet Mom passed away in July of 2019.  My family is still heartbroken.  But we do our best to honor Mom with our store, picking trips and the never ending hunt of a bargain, hand crafting pieces and saving the old ways.   

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We pride our selves on great prices, unique items and Mom inspired pastimes like bird watching, flower gardening and old-time canning.  We plan to bring the best from our store, website and the lace of our lives on the Farm.